*Ja Rule and Irv Gotti hit up The Breakfast Club studio Wednesday to dish about their collaborative relationship, “Growing Up Hip Hop,” and the disastrous Fyre festival.
“Me and Rule is like completely different than anything anyone has ever seen in hip-hop,” Gotti said. ‘This is a true brothership. It doesn’t matter. We’ve never had an argument.”
Ja addresses the Fyre Festival fiasco (about 17 minutes in) and the fierce backlash he faced. The event was founded by the rapper and businessman Billy McFarland, and was created to promote the Fyre app for booking music talent. The festival was scheduled to take place April 28–30 and May 5–7, 2017, on the Bahamian island of Great Exuma.
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Paying Ja Rule to attend a music festival he has put together after the Fyre Festival fuckshit is like hiring R. Kelly to babysit your 13-year-old daughter. pic.twitter.com/5aAm6nlpfs
— RiPPa (@RippDemUp) June 5, 2019
The inaugural weekend, however, was plagued with issues related to security, food, accommodation, bad weather, medical services and artist relations, resulting in the event being postponed indefinitely. As a result, the organizers were hit with nearly a dozen lawsuits and McFarland with charged with one count of wire fraud. In October 2018, he was sentenced to six years in prison and ordered to forfeit $26 million.
Two documentaries about the event were released earlier this year, Hulu’s “Fyre Fraud” and Netflix’s “Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened.”
As noted by Complex, Ja Rule has since rebranded the app as Icon and plans to give the festival another go, only this time with the right people.
“The Fyre Festival was an amazing idea. Let’s not act like every fucking body wasn’t coming to the Fyre Festival. It was fucking done wrong. It was organized bad. The idea of it was dope, the marketing was dope, everything was done very right on that end. The execution was extremely bad, man.”
He added “I’m getting calls from the biggest motherfucking n****s who do festivals in the world . . . Sure, I would like to do another festival and do it right because that’s what I intended to do in the first motherfucking place,” he said.
The hip-hop star made clear that he has he no intentions of having “any conversations” with McFarland.
“I’m mad at Billy,” he said around 29 minutes in. “He lied to me, man. He lied to me in a lot of ways.”
He then noted that wealthy “white kids that didn’t get their tents that they were f*cking promised,” and so compared it to the shootings, violence and death surrounding this year’s Rolling Loud festival. “When these documentaries coming out?” he asked.
“When it’s Black people being ostracized and f*cked over, it don’t mean nothing,” he added.
Later in the conversation, Gotti touches on JAY-Z’s business influence and teased that a “brand new record” from a “huge, huge artist” who’s “controversial” is set to drop July 2 as part of the two-hour season premiere of his “Tales” series on BET.
Scroll up and watch the full interview via the YouTube clip above.
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